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ich post das mail mal hier rein im offtopic ises fehl am platz und woanders als hier verstehts eh keiner


At 23:48 17.04.2003, Robert Waldner wrote:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html#funding
> http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
>
> (so das wen interessiert)
>
> cheers,
> &rw
>
> To: protected
> From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
> Subject: DARPA cancellation
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:39:32 -0600
>
> FYI,
>
> It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
> with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
> effective today, without any warning.
>
> My suspicion is this happened because I made anti-war statements in a
> Canadian newspaper article in the Globe & Mail, but I am not an
> American citizen so I cannot claim to have free speech there (even
> made "quote of the day").
>
> In a phone call a few days ago it was expressed to me that there were
> people inside DARPA and UPENN who were very uncomfortable with the
> article, but I was not told specifically what upset them.
>
> We have 60 developers flying in from around the world (they bought
> their own tickets, non-refundable) for a Hackathon May 8 - 20, where
> we do a major part of our development; since DARPA is now forcing
> UPENN to cancel those Hotel accomodations, I would be very grateful if
> anyone can find a way to help us. I'm going to need to pay for it
> myself, since these people are going to come.
>
> Thanks.